Born October 1, 1936, in Marseille, to Alexis Grugnardi and Vincente Bonavita
Completed elementary and high school studies at the Lycée Longchamp, in Marseille; obtained a bachelor’s degree in modern literature at the University of Aix-en-Provence
Married René Fouque in 1959
Obtained a secondary teaching diploma in modern literature; taught and obtained a postbachelor’s degree in modern literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne
Employed as literary critic and translator at Cahiers du Sud and the Quinzaine littéraire, as well as manuscript reader at Éditions du Seuil
Gave birth to daughter Vincente in 1964
Participated in Roland Barthes’s seminar in the École Pratique des Hautes Études and prepared master’s in advanced studies with Barthes (dissertation on the avant-garde)
Participated in Jacques Lacan’s seminar; began psychoanalytical training with Lacan in 1968
Co-founded the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) in October 1968 and created the Psychanalyse et Politique research group
• the Éditions Des femmes (1973), the first women’s publishing house in Europe
• the Des femmes bookstores (1974 in Paris, 1976 in Marseille, 1977 in Lyon) and the Des femmes gallery (1980)
• Le Quotidien des femmes (newspaper, 1975), Des femmes en mouvements (monthly, then weekly magazine, 1977–1982)
• the Institut d’Enseignement et de Recherches en Sciences des Femmes and the Collège de Féminologie (1978, a field developed to consider the specific experience of women in the elaboration of knowledge)
• the Alliance des Femmes pour la Démocratie (AFD, 1989)
• the Observatoire de la Misogynie (1989)
• the Club Parité 2000 (1990)
• the Espace Des femmes (an art gallery and a venue for encounters and discussions dedicated to women’s creation, 2007)
Earned doctorate in political science at Université de Paris VIII in 1992
Served in European Parliament. 1994 to 1999; vice chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights; member of the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Civil Liberties
Headed the Alliance Française of San Diego, California, 1985–1988
Headed the international sector of the Women’s International Center, 1985–1988
Represented France and the European Union at the United Nations Conferences of Cairo (1994), Beijing (1995), and Istanbul (1996); participated as president of the AFD in those of Rio (1992), Vienna (1993), and Copenhagen (1995), working for the full integration of women’s rights into human rights
Served on L’Observatoire de la Parité entre les femmes et les hommes (created by President Jacques Chirac in 1995, with the purpose of conducting an institutional follow-up of questions on parity), 2002–2010
Defended women in danger throughout the world, including
Eva Forest (imprisoned by Franco’s regime in Spain, 1975)
Tatiana Mamonova, Julia Voznesenskaya, and the authors of Women and Russia (dissidents fighting for women’s liberation in the USSR, 1980)
Aung San Suu Kyi, whom she met in 1995 in Rangoon, after publishing her book Se libérer de la peur (Freedom from Fear) in 1991
Leyla Zana (Kurd deputy imprisoned by the Turkish government, 1994)
Taslima Nasrin (victim of an Islamic fatwa in Bangladesh, 1994)
Bulgarian nurses (who risked the death sentence in Libya, 2006)
Antoinette Fouque died on February 20, 2014
Il y a deux sexes (Paris: Gallimard, 1995; 2d ed. Gallimard 2004)
Gravidanza: Essais de féminologie 2 (Paris: Des femmes, 2007)
Génération MLF: 1968–2008 (ed.) (Paris: Des femmes, 2008)
Qui êtes-vous Antoinette Fouque? interviews with Christophe Bourseiller (Paris: Bourin, 2009)
Génésique: Essais de féminologie 3 (Paris: Des femmes, 2012)
Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (coeditor), a pioneering encyclopedic work sponsored by UNESCO that highlights forty centuries of women’s creation on all continents and in every field of human history, the arts, culture, science and technology (Paris: Des femmes, 2013)